Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
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For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
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But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.